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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 12. Health
Agency 5. Department of Health
Chapter 481. Virginia Radiation Protection Regulations
11/14/2024

12VAC5-481-1960. Safety instruction.

In addition to the requirements of 12VAC5-481-2270, licensees shall provide radiation safety instruction initially and at least annually to personnel caring for patients or human research subjects who cannot be released under 12VAC5-481-1870. To satisfy this requirement, the instruction shall be commensurate with the duties of the personnel and include:

1. Patient or human research subject control;

2. Visitor control, including:

a. Routine visitation to hospitalized individuals in accordance with 12VAC5-481-720 A 1; and

b. Visitation authorized in accordance with 12VAC5-481-720 C;

3. Contamination control;

4. Waste control; and

5. Notification of the RSO, or his designee, and an authorized user if the patient or human research subject has a medical emergency or dies.

Statutory Authority

§ 32.1-229 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 22, Issue 25, eff. September 20, 2006; amended, Virginia Register Volume 24, Issue 18, eff. June 12, 2008; Volume 32, Issue 24, eff. August 25, 2016.

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